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Mayor Rob Ford hung up Wednesday on a question about the football bus fiasco which put the civic leader in the centre of controversy.

TTC CEO Andy Byford asked him not to call on transit matters that could be construed as personal after about 50 riders were dumped off the 36 Finch West bus to respond to a Toronto Police request to pick up the mayor’s high school football team last week. When the bus was slow in showing up, Ford called Byford.

When pressed about Byford’s comment, Ford responded: “C’mon, are you serious? ... I have nothing to do with it. You’re beating a dead horse now.”

Byford said Tuesday that “I have asked that, in future, any matters that can be construed as being sort of personal to the mayor, I would rather he did not call me.”

Ford did welcome news that he has been present for more recorded votes than around half of council and is recorded present for more recorded votes than former mayor David Miller.

“I knew I did,” he said. “I still want to improve my attendance record, that’s why I made every vote recorded. It brings true accountability to City Hall.

Councillor Adam Vaughan said because council records every speaking extension and minor event, there are a lot of votes that are a “waste of time” and “a waste of taxpayers’ resources.”

“The real issue is are you there for the debates on the major issues and are you there for the votes on major issues,” he said.